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...women were the highlight in the slalom, with Dershowitz carving her way to a career-high second place finish, while Valeria Scott, recovering from a deep thigh bruise suffered last week, to smack her way through the gates to crack...
...order to begin my research, I headed for Widener Library to review the relevant literature--and ran smack into the bars of the "Erotic Cage." This room is a restricted-access area in the bowels of Widener containing journals on sexuality. Why aren't these journals in the regular stacks? The library employees I asked didn't know, but I presume it's because the University considers them too dirty for undergraduate minds. A typical excerpt from the Journal of Sex Research...
...special representative for the Multilateral Assistance Initiative, an international program that has obtained pledges of $3.5 billion in development aid for the Philippines from a score of countries and institutions. He explains, "She seems totally dedicated to democratic government -- to the point where she will not do things that smack of authoritarianism...
With 10 minutes to play, freshman Amy Snow lifted a high shot that was headed for the goal. Reilly leapt and was able to bat the ball over the net. Two minutes later, Jennifer Smith launched a shot that Reilly had to smack away from the goal area...
Even sobersided economists accept that there is something odd about the Italian experience. A recent scholarly study, The Italian Miracle, does smack of the supernatural compared with the German miracle, which was 99% hard work. But there are rational elements. Italians are great savers, squirreling away 15% of income, much of it in government securities. Fully 97% of the national debt is funded domestically, and nearly two-thirds of the negotiable state debt is in the hands of individuals. This mode of saving doubtless owes something to exchange controls and preferential tax treatment, but Italians have been willing buyers...